Arrangement for closing boxes, particularly in large garages for motor vehicles



J. KELLER CLOSING BOXES ARRANGEMENT FOR Feb. 23, 1937.

' PARTICULARLY IN LARGE GARAGES FQR MOTOR VEHICLES Filed March 20, 1935rris ARRANGEMENT FOR CLOSING BOXES, PARTICULARLY IN LARGE GARAGES FQRMOTOR VEHICLES Jean Keller, Basel, Switzerland Application March 20,1935, Serial No. 12,033 in Switzerland April 25, 1934 2 Claims. (01.2016) In garages for motor vehicles, the narrow corlinked, whichsecondary wings, when standing ridors running along the boxes, oiferconsiderable side by side in the closed position, take up thedifficulties to the drivers when driving into and direction of thecorridor is, that is, represent out of the separate compartments,usually called one of the parallel sides of the trapeze like struc- 5boxes. Greater width of the roadway (corture. These secondary wings I)can be swung 5 ridor), however, naturally requires a correspondround atwill, that is, up to 360, thus, either ingly great-er floor surface,therefore greater capias shown at the left in Fig. 2, swung inwardly talexpenditure. Obviously much is done and a and laid against the inside ofthe already opened greater facilitation is offered the drivers, if, onlymain wing a, or, as shown at the right in Fig. 2,

during driving in and driving out, the breadth of swung outwardly andlaid from the outside each 10 the corridor at the entrance of theindividual on the secondary wing of the closure of the boxes can beenlarged. The arrangement for neighboring box.

closing boxes, which forms the subject matter After opening the closureof a box the correof the present invention, is intended to servesponding part of the corridor is free for the enthis purpose. trance orexit of a vehicle, which offers a con- 15 According to the invention theclosure for each siderable advantage to the driver. The main adbox formsa projection of the room enclosed Vantage resulting from the presentarrangement between its walls. This projection is formed by is that onthe construction of a garage the cortwo pairs of upright rigid wings,which in closed ridors can be made narrower, as if the depth of positionrepresent a prism erected over a trapeze the boxes occupied also theplace taken by the 20 like structure as base. Two main wings formingclosing arrangement enclosing the front or rear the one pair of wings,representing the nonpart of vehicles put in. Because of their unparalleltrapeze sides, are each rotatably mounted limited capability ofswinging, neither the secondon posts fixed each at the end of a sidewall ary wings b, nor the main wings a, in the open of the box, whilsteach of the two wings of the position, hinder, in any way, trafiic intoor out of 5 other pair is so linked to one of the main wings, a box.

that it can be swung around as desired, but The closures of evacuatedboxes in a mammoth in the closed position takes the direction of thegarage can be left open, the main wings a being corridor, these twowings together representing turned inwardly so that they rest over thelonger then one of the parallel trapeze sides. The savof the twoparallel sides of the trapeze. Ad- 30 ing of floor space achieved bythis arrangement vantageously the two secondary wings b are also can bevery considerable in a large garage, where turned inwardly, so that theyrest against the there are several hundred boxes. inner surface of thealready inwardly turned main The accompanying drawing shows an examplewings. This measure obviously facilitates runof carrying out the subjectof the invention. ning through the corridor and the accessibility 35Fig. 1 shows a front View, in the middle the of the boxes adjacent tosaid evacuated boxes. closure of a box in the closed position and on Allfour wings in the example illustrated are both sides of the latter onehalf of the closure filled with wide meshed wire netting, but could, oftwo neighboring boxes. of course, be stiffened by means of struts. One

Fig. 2 is the corresponding plan view, wherein, of the secondary wings bcan, for example, be 40 however, the wings of the closure of the middleprovided above and below with stops 0. the other box are shown in theopen position. with a lock 2 and a slip-bolt d adapted to engage Tofixed posts s at the front end of the side in the floor. walls dividingone box from the neighboring box, If, for example, the width of the mainwings a the main wings a. of a closing arrangement is 100 anus. andthese wings, as in the example 45 formed in the manner of a wing-gate,are swingillustrated, are turned through about 150 against ably held.These main wings, which represent the side Walls of a box terminating atthe post 3, the non-parallel sides of a prism erected over a thedistance 2', which amount can be saved in the trapeze like structure asbase, project in the width of the corridor It only on one side, is aboutclosed position by an amount 1' into the'corridor 7c, cms. It is,however, possible to allow the clos- 50 as shown in Fig. 2, whilst inthe open position, ing arrangement of the boxes to! project more theycan be laid against the main wings of the than 90 cms. into thecorridor, if, for example, the neighboring boxes, after they have beencorre- Wings a are given a breadth of cms. and the spondingly swung. Toeach main wing 11. a secangle, which they enclose with the side walls of55 ondary wing b, preferably of smaller width, is the boxes, measuresmore than the depth of 55 the boxes between the side dividing wallsbeing correspondingly shortened. Furthermore, the breadth of the boxes,which can suitably be 270-280 cms. is also determinative for the breadthof the Wings. In each case the side wings I) can be narrower than themain wings a.

I claim:

1. A door comprising two rigid uprights, a main wing hingedly mounted toeach upright and adapted to swing approximately 180 thereon, a secondarywing swingingly connected to each main wing, the arrangement being suchthat in the closed position the said main wings and secondary wings takeup a position corresponding to the non-parallel and one parallel side ofa trapeze, and in the open position said main wings are swung outwardlyand the secondary wings folded about said main wings.

2. Arrangement for closing boxes, particularly in large garages formotor vehicles, comprising a fixed post at the front end of eachwalldividing the individual boxes, two main Wings rotatably mounted on eachof said posts, a secondary wing swingingly mounted on each main wing andadapted to swing approximately 180 thereon, the arrangement being suchthat in the closed position the Wings project into the corridor betweenrows of boxes in the form of a trapeze, the main wings representing thenon-parallel sides of the trapeze and the secondary wings taking up thedirection of the corridor and together representing one of the parallelsides of the trapeze, whilst in the open position the wings can be swunground to facilitate entry into, and exit from, each box.

JEAN KELLER.

